by Philippe Grimbert · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253117186
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«Un secret» is the novel by Philippe Grimbert, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (184 pages, in French).
The narrator, a child who has invented an older brother to tell it to those who cannot verify it, discovers a shocking truth about his family. From then on, he reconstructs a story full of silence and pain, framed in the Holocaust, and shows how inherited secrets mark the identity of the one who discovers them.
The novel «Un secret» was awarded the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2004 and the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle 2005, and was adapted into a movie by Claude Miller in 2007.
For readers of literary fiction interested in contemporary French narrative and in stories about memory, identity, and family secrets.
Philippe Grimbert is a French writer and psychoanalyst.
